Fiber Equipment: Equipment and Company Executive

fiber equipment: It can be used to make parts for centrifuges that enrich uranium as well as military aircraft, according to The Japan Times. Exports of the material and the equipment to produce it are tightly controlled by the government under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act. The flexible fiber the equipment makes is 10 times stronger and four times lighter than steel. The arrests are the first by the police for unauthorized exports of such equipment, the sources said. The three men, including a company executive in Hiroshima Prefecture, are suspected of having exported the equipment to China in 2013 without approval from the trade ministry, the sources said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.